Collection of four effects for "sabotaging your creativity"

Wilmington, NC - March 19, 2008 - Digieffects, a developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Autodesk Combustion today announced that it shipped Damage, a new set of plugins for video and film post production.

Digieffects Damage is a collection of four effects plugins designed for post production professionals who want to create an extensive variety of digital and/or analog defects/errors in your footage.

"We designed the Damage package to be the most comprehensive set of tools for creating images that look affected by digital or analog artifacts available." said Digieffects President, Robert Sharp. According to Sharp, Damage is a unique product in the marketplace. No other plugin collection is dedicated to 'damaging' a video project". Damage includes the following effects:

Blockade: Video acquired by low fidelity devices like cellular phones and PDAs is becoming more commonplace. Blockade makes your clip look like it is highly compressed and being transmitted through a very bandwidth-limited pipe. Essential for simulating internet based micro cam display or personal video communication.

Artifact: Developed to create digital defects, Artifact simulates lost DCT blocks and frame dropping, most often seen when a digital video file suffers from corruption or a satellite feed is hampered by weather. Make sure you warn clients and your house engineer that it's only an effect...

Interference: If it's television you want, traditionally you'll need some sort of interlaced field scanning. Interference creates the look of interlaced video fields, even on progressive footage or still images, adding noise, colorization and offset separately for each field.

Skew: The never-ending quest to aim the rabbit ears so that the television show looks as good once you're in your chair as it did when your hands were attached to the antenna is fast fading into the lore of old... That valuable (if under-appreciated) look is preserved in Skew. Uniquely analog/broadcast image badness like noise, image shearing, ghosts... it's all there.

Damage has a retail price of $99 and is available immediately from Digieffects and its resellers.

About Digieffects
Digieffects is a developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Autodesk Combustion. The company has been in the business since the beginning of the "plug-in revolution" which dates back to 1996. Over the years, Digieffects has had great success with software products like Cinelook and Delirium and is proud to call thousands of film and video producers all around the world its customers and friends.

Labels: After Effects, Combustion, Damage, DigiEffects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro

Emmy award winning director/editor will steer product vision

Wilmington, NC - March 3, 2008 - Tim Kolb, an Emmy, Chicago Film Festival Hugo, and Telly Award-winning director and a 20 year veteran of video and television post production has joined Digieffects as the Chief Product Officer. In this capacity, Tim, will lead the company's product marketing and management efforts.

Tim has experience with a wide range of creative initiatives ranging from interactive projects as early as 1986 to broadcast news production and working with HD and 2K RAW acquisition/post production and compositing. He has been a tour presenter for Canopus, Adobe, CineForm, Sony, and Silicon Imaging, a forum moderator at Creative Cow and author of multiple articles on the web and for TV Technology and Post Magazine. Tim has been featured in articles in Millimeter, Video Systems, EventDV, Studio Monthly, Film and Video, and Studentfilmmaker magazines and is the author of "The Easy Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro" and more recently, the technical editor of "Hands on HDV" (Gloman/Pescatore) from Focal Press. Tim was named one of the "Top 100 Producers" of 2002 by AV Video/ Multimedia Producer Magazine.

"I've enjoyed building my career in production, and I still plan on continuing with certain projects and clients, but for a number of years I've also enjoyed working with industry manufacturers, furnishing input from the user's perspective." said Kolb. "Now I have a chance to be involved with an excellent group of people during some very exciting times at Digieffects, and instead of simply offering input, I'll be helping put it in action."

"We are thrilled and honored to have Tim join the company" said Robert Sharp, president of Digieffects. "I've known Tim for many years and have always been impressed with his strong technical and product knowledge as well as his ability to relate to the needs of users".

Digieffects will be exhibiting at the NAB Show in Las Vegas in April (Booth SL2128D in the Plugin Pavilion).

About Digieffects Digieffects is a developer of popular software plugins for film and video post-production. The company has been in the business since the beginning of the "plug-in revolution" which dates back to 1996. Over the years, Digieffects has had great success with software products like Cinelook and Delirium and began a new chapter of growth in 2007 when acquired by industry veteran Robert Sharp. Digieffects plugins support Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk Combustion and Boris RED.

Labels: After Effects, Combustion, Delirium, DigiEffects, Final Cut Pro, NAB, Premiere Pro, RED

Boris Final Effects Complete will be 50% off starting at Midnight PST on Tuesday, January 15. The sale ends at 11:59pm the same night and no orders will be taken after that. 50%! Now that's a great deal!

Final Effects Complete (FEC) delivers a comprehensive collection of effects plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro and other leading digital video solutions. Ranging from graceful blurs and edges to radical warps and particle generators, Final Effects Complete dramatically augments editor's creative arsenal without forcing you to learn an entirely new application.

We'll post some new images of FEC shortly. If you're signed up for our SMS service, we'll text you in the morning to remind you of the sale.

Labels: After Effects, Boris, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Final Effects Complete, Newsletter, One Day Sale, w

Autodesk Combustion 2008 has just been released. Need an upgrade? Autodesk Combustion 2008 upgrade from 3.0 and Autodesk Combustion 2008 upgrade from 4.0 are available.

What's New
Colour Warper primary and selective color correction tool made famous in Autodesk Flame software for precise fine-tuning with multiple levels of adjustment in a single pass.

• Interactive adjustment of gamma, gain, offset, hue, saturation, and contrast. Apply animatable settings to all channels or independently to R, G, and B.
• Intuitive hue shift and tint color wheel for fast, accurate color balancing. Visual color sampling palette for precise color matching.
• Interactive Histogram and curves editing modes for subtle, precision tweaking of color components.
• Independent controls for color correcting the image's shadow, midtone, and highlight regions-features user-definable luminance ranges.
• Match feature for fast scene-to-scene color correction.
• Selective feature for sampling up to three different color regions for isolated correction.
• UI features a high-quality RGB vector scope and a 3D histogram for precise color monitoring.

Read the announcement press release from November 27, 2007: Autodesk Launches Combustion 2008 Desktop Compositing Software

Labels: Autodesk, Combustion

Autodesk, Inc. today announced Autodesk Combustion 2008 software, the latest version of its desktop compositing and visual effects solution. Combustion offers digital media artists an easy-to-use interface, non-destructive workflow and extensive toolset at the affordable price of US$995*. It has been used on the Juicy Fruit Ant commercial by Asylum Visual Effects, the Target Anthem ad by Brand New School, and by Zoic Studio on the Journeyman television show. The popular Colour Warper tool, found in the Autodesk Flame visual effects system, has been added to Combustion 2008. The new release also includes improvements to the schematic view.

The Colour Warper in Combustion 2008 performs primary and selective color correction. It also allows for precise fine-tuning with multiple levels of adjustment in a single pass. Colour Warper features include:

• Interactive adjustment of gamma, gain, offset, hue, saturation, and contrast
• Intuitive hue shift and a tint color wheel for fast, accurate color balancing and a visual color sampling palette for precise color matching
• Interactive Histogram and curves editing modes for subtle, precision tweaking of color components
• Independent controls for color correcting the image's shadow, midtone, and highlight regions
  
• "Match" feature for fast scene-to-scene color correction
• "Selective" feature for sampling up to three different color regions for isolated correction
• User interface features: high-quality RGB vector scope, and a 3D histogram for precise color monitoring

Pricing and Availability
Autodesk anticipates that Combustion 2008 will be available in December 2007. The 2008 release will be supported on Macintosh and Windows operating systems. Autodesk suggested retail pricing is US$995*. The suggested upgrade price from Combustion 4 to Combustion 2008 is US$199*.

*International pricing may vary.

For more information on Combustion 2008, please visit www.autodesk.com/combustion.

Labels: Combustion, Press Release

Native Support Added for Both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs

Wilmington, NC - November 12, 2007 - Digieffects, a developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Autodesk Combustion today announced that Universal Binary versions of Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix are now available for Intel-based Macintosh computers.

Digieffects Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix are now compatible with Universal Binary applications such as Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Premiere CS3, and Final Cut Pro 6. Since Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix are backwards compatible, these programs will still run natively on Power PC-based Mac computers.

Existing Delirium, Berserk, and Aurorix customers moving to the Intel-based Macintosh platform can download free updates from the Digieffects web site.

Note: Universal Binary versions of Digieffects Fantazm, Buena Effects Pack, and Buena Depth Cue will be available in early 2008.

About Digieffects Digieffects is a developer of popular software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and Autodesk Combustion. The company has been in the business since the beginning of the "plug-in revolution" which dates back to 1996. Over the years, Digieffects has had great success with software products like Cinelook and Delirium and is proud to call thousands of film and video producers all around the world its customers and friends.

Note: The plug-ins are no longer in beta and are now available.

Labels: Aurorix, Berserk, Buena Depth Cue, Buena Effects Pack, Combustion, Delirium, Demo, DigiEffects, Fantasm, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Universal

New version features over 30 new effects and many enhancements

Available immediately for After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Combustion and Fusion.

Cambridge, MA. October 30, 2007 - GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries, today announced the immediate availability of Sapphire Plug-ins version 2 for After Effects and compatible products including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk Combustion, and Eyeon Fusion. The new release features over 30 new effects, plus many new parameters and improvements to existing effects in the package.

For over a decade, GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins have set the standard for sophisticated, organic visual effects which natively integrate with leading editing and compositing systems. Version 2 contains all of the visual effects and features that have established Sapphire Plug-ins as an indispensable part of the digital artist's toolkit - and introduces more than 30 new and innovative effects. FilmDamage, ZDefocus, Cartoon, BleachBypass, GradientMulti, SwishPan, Light3D, Deband, and TextureNeurons are a few of the new plug-ins in the collection of over 200 image processing and synthesis effects. Many new effects were designed to improve users' workflow while others offer easy ways to create eye-catching visuals, such as FilmDamage - which simulates aged film by adding scratches, dust, stains, grain, shake and flicker. Enhancements to existing effects in the package include a revamped RackDefocus, 4 new Glares and 14 new LensFlares.

"GenArts has the highest quality plug-ins you can find. I love the new effects in Sapphire 2 such as WarpMagnify, SwishPan and DissolveGlow, and I expect to use Vignette every day," comments Jack Tunnicliffe, Senior Effects Artist at Java Post Production. "The LensFlare additions are also fabulous."

Sapphire 2 includes support for the latest versions of all After Effects and compatible host applications including Adobe CS3 and the "Smart FX" API which provides more efficient processing and support for 32bit image formats. All platforms running v2 will have improved rendering speed.

"We are thrilled with this new release. After Effects, Final Cut Pro and the other compatible products have become integral parts of our high-end users' workflow as we see more and more clients working on multiple host platforms. Version 2 further extends their creative capabilities with many innovative effects and additional functionality," says Anish Dhanda, Managing Director of GenArts.

Key New Features of Sapphire Plug-ins 2 for After Effects and Compatible Products:

• FilmDamage simulates aged film by adding scratches, dust, stains, grain, shake, flicker, etc.
• ZDefocus defocuses areas of the source clip by different amounts using depth values from a z-buffer input.
• Cartoon gives cartoon-like looks with exaggerated edges and flat areas of color.
• Light3D performs 3D relighting of a clip using an input clip describing the surface normals.
• Vignette darkens the outer edges of a clip with various shape options.
• BleachBypass generates a stylized version of the source clip by simulating a bleach bypass process.
• Other new effects include: BlurDirectional, CartoonPaint, Posterize, Deband, DogVision, TileScramble, WarpMagnify, WarpCornerPin, GradientMulti, Shape, TextureTiles, TextureNeurons, TextureLoops, TextureFlux, SwishPan, DissolveGlow, DissolveFilm, FeedbackDistort, Convolve, ConvolveComp, ZConvolve, ZGlow, TriTone, QuadTone, Invert, ShowBadColors and ChannelSwitcher.
• LensFlare has 14 new flare types, new parameters to adjust the look of the flares and an optional Matte input which allows selective blocking or colorizing of flares.
• LensFlareAutoTrack can track and render flares at multiple hotspots.
• RackDefocus has new shape options and improved performance.
• Glare includes 4 new glare types and improved performance.
• Adobe's "Smart FX" API is supported for AE7 and CS3 with more efficient processing and reading of 32bit image formats.
• Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard are supported.

Availability and Pricing

Sapphire Plug-ins version 2 for After Effects and compatible products can be purchased directly from GenArts or through their worldwide channel of authorized resellers. Pricing for Sapphire 2 is $1699 for the entire package or $599 for one of four individual box sets. Special upgrade pricing for existing v1 customers is offered for $599 and $199, respectively. A free trial of the software is available online at www.genarts.com. Sapphire Plug-ins version 2 will also be available on Quantel generationQ products with VDS Synapse. For more information about Sapphire on Quantel please contact VDS.

About GenArts, Inc. Founded in 1996 in Cambridge, Mass., GenArts, Inc. is the premier provider of digital visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries. Their product, Sapphire Plug-ins, equips digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as: Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, Warps and Textures. The effects seamlessly integrate into a number of editing and compositing systems including: Adobe® After Effects®, Premiere® Pro and Premiere® Elements; Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Shake®; Avid® AVX Products; Autodesk® Compositing & Editing Systems, and Combustion®; Eyeon® Fusion®; and Quantel® generationQ products. Sapphire Plug-ins have become the industry standard for high-end visual effects creation by providing unrivaled image quality, a unique organic look, and ease of use. They have been used extensively in an array of television programs, music videos and feature films, including: Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and 3, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars - Episode I, II and III, Sin City, The Matrix trilogy, X-Men 1, 2 and 3, Titanic, Lost and CSI. Additional GenArts product information can be found at www.genarts.com.

Labels: After Effects, Combustion, Eyeon Fusion, Final Cut Pro, GenArts, Sapphire

We've put together a page in our Plug-in Finder that addresses the issue of flicker removal in video, caused by your camera lens, lighting changes in stop motion or anything else. There are several plug-ins out there for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Combustion and other host apps to help you out of your flicker jam.

Got any tips or tutorials we can link up? Email Michele Yamazaki with the information.

Labels: After Effects, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Plug-in Finder, Premiere Pro

IBC 2007, Amsterdam, Booth #7.528, 7th September, 2007. Leading visual effects developer The Foundry today announced the debut release of its visual effects plug-ins and image-processing tools for Autodesk's Combustion (Windows only) desktop software. For the first time, The Foundry has made its entire Tinderbox collection of industry-leading plug-ins available to Combustion artists, bringing over 70 new effects within easy reach of users and enabling them to significantly enhance their VFX capabilities.

The complete collection of Tinderboxes, 1, 2, 3 and 4, feature over 70 powerful 2D visual effects. Each comes with a multitude of adjustable parameters to give everyone involved in the creation of stylish motion graphics and visual effects, access to a comprehensive toolset that can deliver unlimited creative possibilities.

"Everything we do is driven by what the market wants, and Combustion users were asking for greater visual effects firepower," commented Dr Bill Collis, CEO at The Foundry. "The Tinderbox collections, deliver just that - cutting-edge creative tools that can be easily used to create stunning effects."

The Foundry's Tinderbox range comprises four separate collections of plug-ins, including generators, creative visual effects and image-processing tools. Examples include: Sky, which generates realistic evolving skies, with controls for clouds, sun, haze, fog, atmosphere and sun flares; Water, which simulates the effect of water droplets rippling on a surface; Fire, for generating realistic animated flames; Colourist, for automatic colour correction and balancing; Starburst, which adds sparkles and highlights; BadTV, for simulating poor television reception; plus over sixty five other stylish effects.

"The Tinderbox series is a powerful collection of tools that have added amazing power and functionality to our shop." D. Jennekens, Bullseye Post.

Tinderbox - highlights:

• Blur: is a time constant sub-pixel guassian blur. It is very fast at large and small blurs and being sub-pixel it can be smoothly animated over time.
• Diffuse: scatters pixels in an image.
• Sky: generates realistic evolving skies. There are controls for clouds, sun, haze, fog, atmosphere and sun flares plus numerous presets.
• HeatHaze: simulates the layered rippling distortions that is characteristic of viewing images through hot air.
• Rays: creates a backlit ray effect. The rays are sourced from selected areas of the image's luminance, or a matte. The colour of the rays can come from the source image or a fixed colour.
• Glass: gives the impression of viewing an image through a layer of distorting glass.
• Grain: adds noise to images to simulate grain. A luminance curve is provided to reduce the amount of grain added in the shadows and highlights.
• LensFlare: generates realistic and highly customisable lens flares. There are controls for the bright spot, light rays, polygonal lens inter-reflections and much more.
• Newsprint: converts images into their constituent dot patterns that are characteristic of printed material. Features three different print methods - Two Tone, CMY and RGB.
• NightSky: renders the brightest 9000 stars visible from Earth. It uses real data so constellations are in their correct positions and with their correct colour. Numerous presets display the constellations.
• Swirl: distorts an image around a point.
• BumpShade: gives images the appearance of depth by falsely extruding the luminance or matte. Lighting is provided to accentuate the relief and parameters to soften the effect are supplied.
• Condensation: renders thousands of water particles that clump together into water droplets. The droplets are used to distort the source image giving the appearance of water condensation on glass. The plug-in comes with lighting controls and the effect auto-animates drips.
• EdgeDetect: finds and highlights edges in images. The result can be blended back into the original using the built-in blending methods. Quick glows and back-lit effects are possible using this technique.
• Silk: is a digital wrinkle cream. It is used to reduce wrinkles, freckles and minor blemishes in actors' faces without having to draw mattes. It is a tolerance blur with a variable blur size that can be used to maintain edges and smooth off regions of a similar hue.
• Lightning: generates highly realistic forked lightning and plasma bolts. There are numerous parameters to control all aspects of the bolt from fork depth to glow intensity. Optional mattes can be used to restrict the path of the plasma around objects.
• Starfield: renders an infinite three dimensional field of stars. There are controls to look in a particular direction or at a fixed position in 3D space regardless of the motion of the observer. An auto mode is supplied to randomly tumble you through space.
• Cartoon: flattens colour and adds lines to edges to give a cartoon feel to images.
• Channels: a versatile tool for channel and image manipulation. It provides a range of functionality including image based arithmetic, clamping, clipping, channel rewiring and colour space conversion.
• Flow: essentially a flood fill along a path defined by a matte. It can be used to write on text and generating animated mattes as transition effects.
• Rain: renders 2D rain over an image. It's quick to render and gives very plausible results for many shots.
• Snow: renders swirling, falling snow that can settle on objects.
• SoftGlow: provides a subtle glow to images.

Availability and Pricing:

Now shipping, Tinderbox is available for artists running a Windows version of Combustion. Nodelocked licenses are available for $500.00 per box.

Existing Tinderbox for After Effects 7.0 customers who are running a Windows version of Combustion on the same machine as their After Effects 7.0 Pro can download the Combustion (Windows only) builds from The Foundry's website. Existing Tinderbox for After Effects 7.0 licenses will license the plug-ins to work on both Combustion and After Effects although customers will not be able to run both programs at the same time.

Labels: Combustion, The Foundry, Tinderbox

I've added DE:Noise to our demo downloads, so you can take it out for a test drive. There are two flavors: one for After Effects compatible (including Premiere Pro, Combustion, Eyeon Digital Fusion and Boris Red) and one FxPlug for Final Cut Pro and Motion.

Download some demos!

Labels: After Effects, Combustion, DE:Noise, Demo, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion, Premiere Pro, Re:Vision Effects, RED

Demos! Get your demos!

We've had the demo for GenArts Sapphire for After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Eyeon Fusion and Combustion up forevah, now you can try out the AVX and Shake demos. Aren't ya excited? You're welcome.

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Combustion, Demo, Final Cut Pro, Shake

Take BCC5 for a spin! The new version works in After Effects CS3, Premiere Pro CS3 and Combustion and is Universal.

There are also demos available for BCC 5 FxPlug for Motion and Final Cut Pro and a version for AVX on the same page.

BCC 5.0 for AE, PPRO and CMB can be purchased here. If you need an upgrade or would like a bundle, oh, we can help you with that!

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Boris, Combustion, Continuum Complete, Demo, Final Cut Pro, FxPlug, Motion, Premiere Pro, Universal

Company to demonstrate their VFX plug-ins on a wide range of products in booth 321

Cambridge, MA. July 17, 2007 - GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries, will be exhibiting at SIGGRAPH 2007, being held August 7-9 at the San Diego Convention Center. GenArts will feature Sapphire Plug-ins, a collection of over 200 image processing and synthesis effects, on a wide range of host platforms in the Plug-in Pavilion, booth 321. For over a decade, GenArts Sapphire Plug-ins have set the standard for sophisticated, organic visual effects which natively integrate with the industry's leading editing and compositing systems. Visitors to the booth will be given demonstrations of the latest Sapphire Plug-ins releases for: Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro & Shake, Avid AVX Products, and Autodesk Combustion.

About GenArts, Inc.
Founded in 1996 in Cambridge, Mass., GenArts, Inc. is the premier provider of digital visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries. Their product, Sapphire Plug-ins, equips digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as: Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, Warps and Textures. The effects seamlessly integrate into a number of editing and compositing systems including: Adobe® After Effects® and Premiere® Pro; Apple® Final Cut Pro® and Shake®; Avid® AVX Products; Autodesk® Compositing & Editing Systems and Combustion®; Eyeon® Fusion®; Sony® XPRI®; and Quantel® generationQ products.

Sapphire Plug-ins have become the industry standard for high-end visual effects creation by providing unrivaled image quality, a unique organic look, and ease of use. They have been used extensively in an array of television programs, music videos and feature films, including: Pirates of the Caribbean 1, 2, and 3, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, Superman Returns, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars – Episode I, II and III, Sin City, The Matrix trilogy, X-Men 1, 2 and 3, Titanic, Lost and CSI.

Labels: Adobe, After Effects, Apple, Avid, Combustion, Event, Final Cut Pro, GenArts, Premiere Pro, Sapphire, Shake

We've put together a list of plug-ins that support 32-Bit Floating Point Color Space. All of the major apps are now supporting it, so if you're using After Effects 7 and above, Premiere Pro 2 and above and other apps of the last few years, you're probably okay. If both the app and the plug-in support 32-bit, you can definitely work in 32 bit.

What is 32-bit color? A quick explanation is that you usually work in a color space of 0-255 - 0 is pure black and 255 is pure white. With 32-bit color, you're working on a scale of 0-1... 0 is pure black and 1 is pure white. The trick here is that you can go higher than 1 and lower than 0 so you have a much higher dynamic range in your images and video. If you shoot RAW, this is really useful because you can pick up subtleties that are lost when you're trapped in a smaller range of luminance.

Learn more about 32-bit floating point color, link to some resources, and learn which third-party plug-ins support 32-bit color. We've included After Effects (of course!), Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Shake, Combustion, Digital Fusion, Softimage XSI and even codecs.

If you're an expert in this area, we'd love your help to expand this resource.

Labels: Adobe, After Effects, Apple, Autodesk, Buena, Color Finesse, Colorista, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Shake

DigiEffects CineLook 2.5 (Mac OS) is now available for trial. CineLook is a plug-in to create film look and film damage on your video. Download the demo today!

CineLook 2.5 is the Universal Binary version compatible with Final Cut Pro 5.1+, After Effects 7.0+ and Combustion on the Intel Macs and Power PC's.

View CineLook in our Plug-in Finder | CineLook Tutorial

Labels: After Effects, Cinelook, Combustion, Demo, DigiEffects, Final Cut Pro, Tutorial

Company to showcase their latest VFX plug-ins and demo reel in newly designed booth SL2829

Cambridge, MA. February 13, 2007 -- GenArts, Inc., a leading provider of digital visual effects plug-ins for the film, broadcast and video industries, will be featuring its entire range of plug-ins at NAB 2007, being held April 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Exhibiting in a newly designed booth, GenArts will have an expanded presence at this year’s NAB. Visitors to booth SL2829 will be given demonstrations of the latest versions of Sapphire Plug-ins on a number of host platforms including: Autodesk Compositing & Editing Systems and Combustion, Avid AVX Products, Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, and Apple Final Cut Pro and Shake. The expanded booth will also include a theater where GenArts will debut a new demo reel featuring Sapphire Plug-ins and representing the most recent work from premier post production houses worldwide.

Labels: After Effects, Avid, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, GenArts, plug-ins, Premiere Pro, Shake

Hardcore visual effects in Vegas, courtesy of The Foundry

DMN Newswire--2007-1-25--Leading visual effects developer The Foundry will take up residence on booth SL14413 in the South Hall at NAB 2007. Visitors looking for stunning 2D visual effects and hardcore image-processing tools will find a host of advanced, yet cost-effective, solutions to enhance workflow and boost productivity from The Foundry.

Full details of new products and company news will be announced soon, but highlights at NAB 2007 already include the debut of Furnace 4 for Shake, and the launch of Tinderbox for Combustion.

Labels: Combustion, Furnace, Shake, The Foundry, Tinderbox

A beta release of Tinderbox for Combustion on Windows (Boxes 1,2,3,4) is available. Requirements: Combustion 4.0 on Windows.

Interested? Contact beta-tb4c@thefoundry.co.uk.

Labels: Beta Test, Combustion, The Foundry, Tinderbox

• Universal plug-in for use with Final Cut Pro 5.1.2 on Intel-based Macintosh systems.
• Universal standalone SD/HD+ version for Intel-based Mac systems.
• Additional support for floating-point pixels under Premiere Pro 2.0.
• Corrections to preview gamma under certain combinations of host application versions and preview card driver versions.
• Corrections to a number of issues when running under Combustion 4.
• The Limiter now defaults to NTSC/PAL depending on the Video System preference setting.
• Other minor fixes and optimizations.

The new 2.1.4 installers are available now on the Synthetic Aperture web site. There is no charge to upgrade from Color Finesse 2.1.x to 2.1.4.

Discounted upgrade pricing is available for those wanting to upgrade from Color Finesse 1.x.

Labels: After Effects, Color Finesse, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, Synthetic Aperture, Universal

Combustion importer now Universal, adds HD ability

Automatic Duck's Pro Import Cmb 1.05 is now available, bringing Universalness as well as compatibility with Combustion 4.04 on the Mac. The new version of Pro Import Cmb can now also handle Avid DNxHD media!

If you're using Combustion on the Mac, you should definitely be using the latest 4.04 release. Not only is it native on Intel Macs, it is even much faster on PPC-based systems. On the Mac side, this new release of Pro Import Cmb is compatible with Combustion 4.04, but only 4.04, not earlier versions. On the Windows side, Pro Import Cmb works with Combustion 3.02 and later.

Pro Import Cmb 1.05 is a free update for users of Pro Import Cmb. Installers for the updated plug-ins can be found on the Automatic Duck web site. Users of Combustion 4.03 or earlier on Mac should not update.

Updates to FCP plug-ins correct P2 incompatibility

Automatic Duck recently learned of a problem where the FCP P2 import module would crash FCP if either of their Pro Import FCP or Pro Export FCP plug-ins were installed. This update corrects that defect.

Users of Pro Export FCP 3.0 can update to 3.05 at no cost. Users of Pro Import FCP 2.0 can update to 2.02 at no cost. Installers for the updated plug-ins can be found at the Automatic Duck web site. Users of older versions of these plug-ins can upgrade for $195.

Check our Plug-in Finder for more Automatic Duck information.

Labels: Automatic Duck, Avid, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, plug-ins